CBS Music of the Blessed Sacrament Music Don Whelan Musical Director 2 Carruthers St, Christchurch 8041, NZ phone 64 3 358 5873 mobile 027 458 5873 [email protected] St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament www.cathedral.org.nz UK-Ireland

In preparation for their forthcoming tour of England, Scotland and Ireland, the CBS Choir and Orchestra will present a short concert at 3 pm on Sunday, May 31, 2015 in St Mary’s Pro- Cathedral. Admission will be free, with a retiring collection, and all are warmly welcome.

The concert begins with the evocative A Sound Came From Heaven by Douglas Mews, and concludes with Mozart’s Inter Natos Mulierum, which the group will perform in the Los Angeles Catholic Cathedral at a concert to mark the feast day of St John the Baptist. Works honouring the Pro-Cathedral’s patronal St Mary will include Bruckner’s Ave Maria, Britten’s Hymn To The Virgin. and the Buxtehude Magnificat. William Byrd’s beautiful Ego Sum was composed under the protection of the cathedral architect’s Petre family, whose stately home they will visit from London. His Christchurch masterpiece will be honoured in the Hymn To the Blessed Sacrment, by eminent contemporary Catholic Composer James MacMillan, our host in Glasgow. The orchestra, led by Carlo Ballara, will be heard in their own right in a Mozart Epistle Sonata, and will accompany the sprightly Monteverdi Beatus Vir and the evocative Mawby Ave Verum. New to Christchurch audiences will be a Missa Festiva by the late Dr Douglas Mews. This interesting short Mass was published in 1963, while the composer was organist at St George’s Catholic Cathedral, Southwark. Reconstituted from its original scoring for mixed choir, organ, strings and recorders, it is a lively and harmonically venturesome work.

Other venues will include Chelmsford Cathedral, , Christchurch Cathedral and St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, Kilkenny Cathedral, Galway Collegiate Church, St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast, St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow, St Giles and St Mary’s , Edinburgh, Cathedral, St ’s Church, York, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, the Birmingham Oratory and St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Masses will feature Mozart’s Mass in F, the Mews Veni, Creator Spiritus, and an excerpt from a Handel’s Chandos Anthem. Soloists travelling on the tour include Stephanie Waterhouse, Ruth Reid, Anne Shave, Wally Enright, David O’Beirne, Ken Joblin and Andrew Moore. Musical Director will be Don Whelan.

The cathedral musicians maintain an extensive repertoire of masses and motets, sung each Sunday at the 10.30 a.m. Solemn Choral Mass. New members are welcome to the 7.30 pm Wednesday evening rehearsal at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. Sight reading ability is expected. Opportunities exist for choral leaders, who enjoy unique opportunities to perform solo roles in significant Mass and motet settings with the orchestra and choir. Leadership awards, and other scholarships, worth up to $3000 per year, are available to suitable applicants. Those interested are invited to contact the CBS Musical Director, Don Whelan, phone 358-5873.